Alexander Leaf (April 10, 1920 – December 24, 2012) was a physician and research scientist best known for his work linking diet and exercise to the prevention...
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A leaf (pl.: leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis....
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"The Maple Leaf Forever" is a Canadian patriotic song written by Alexander Muir (1830–1906) in 1867, the year of Canada's Confederation. He wrote the...
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is often called the Valley of Longevity.[citation needed] In 1973 Dr Alexander Leaf of Harvard Medical School introduced these people to the world in his...
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Leaf or Leafe is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Alexander Leaf (1920–2012), American physician and research scientist Andy Leaf (born...
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leaf had represented Ontario, while the green maple leaf had represented Quebec. In 1867, Alexander Muir composed the patriotic song "The Maple Leaf Forever"...
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Good Health. Columbia University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0231134842 Alexander Leaf, (Jan. 1973). "Search for the Oldest People". National Geographic, pp...
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Alexander Muir (5 April 1830 – 26 June 1906) was a Canadian songwriter, poet, soldier, and school headmaster. He was the composer of The Maple Leaf Forever...
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Maple Leaf Forever Guitars are two guitars, one acoustic and one electric, made from the tree that inspired Alexander Muir to write "The Maple Leaf Forever"...
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gilding. Gold leaf is a type of metal leaf, but the term is rarely used when referring to gold leaf. The term metal leaf is normally used for thin sheets of...
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Albumblad in C major (1860) Sir Edward German: Album Leaf (1892) Album Leaf for violin and piano Alexander Glazunov: Albumblatt for trumpet and piano (1899)...
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The Toronto Maple Leafs (officially the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club and often referred to as the Leafs) are a professional ice hockey team based in...
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Flag of Canada (redirect from Maple leaf flag)
Alexander Muir composed the patriotic song "The Maple Leaf Forever", which became an unofficial anthem in English-speaking Canada. The maple leaf was...
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purchased in 1968 by the noted physician Alexander Leaf. It remained in the Leaf family until shortly after Alexander's death in 2013. Mr. Brown's architectural...
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through her role as Jing Hua in Bad Education and its spinoff film. She played Leaf in the sixth season of Game of Thrones, Linh Xuan Huy in the BBC Two drama...
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Leaf celery (Apium graveolens Secalinum Group or Apium graveolens var. secalinum), also called Chinese celery or Nan Ling celery, is a group of cultivars...
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Alexander Semyon Vindman (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Семенович Ві́ндман; born June 6, 1975) is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel who was the...
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highly reliable canine model of sudden cardiac death" by physiologist Alexander Leaf et al.: 130 The model is described in Springer's handbook of reliable...
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by the Anglo-American Packing Company. Clover Leaf Seafoods traces its roots back to 1871 when Alexander Ewen and three partners founded Loggie & Company...
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Sir Walter Leaf (26 November 1852, Upper Norwood – 8 March 1927, Torquay) was an English banker, classical scholar, and psychical researcher. He published...
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Phyllotaxis (redirect from Leaf arrangement)
In botany, phyllotaxis (from Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon) 'leaf', and τάξις (táxis) 'arrangement') or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaves on a plant...
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Betel (redirect from Betel leaf)
betel leaf plate in Vietnam. Betel bag, New Guinea, nineteenth century MHNT. A Chinese Peasant Selling Betel, 1793-1794, by William Alexander, Department...
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2023 drama film directed and written by Savanah Leaf, based on the short film The Heart Still Hums by Leaf and Taylor Russell. It was released theatrically...
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"Mogilny scores 400th in Maple Leafs victory.html". Deseret News. October 9, 2001. Retrieved April 29, 2019. "Alexander Mogilny 2002-03 Game Log". hockey-reference...
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nuclear weapons. Drs. Bernard Lown, Victor W. Sidel, Sidney Alexander, H. Jack Geiger, Alexander Leaf, Charles Magraw, George Saxton, Robert Goldwyn, and Bernard...
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Haig received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with oak leaf cluster, and the Purple Heart. In 1969, Haig became an assistant to national...
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S. Jaffe (d.) Sidney Katz (d.) Gerald Klerman (d.) Ben Lawton (d.) Alexander Leaf (d.) Edithe J. Levit (d.) Virgil Loeb (d.) Richard A. Merrill (d.) Robert...
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Independent suspension (redirect from Transverse leaf spring)
inner leaf friction as compared to the multi-leaf metal spring which was standard on the car. Rather than centrally mounting the transverse leaf spring...
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Leaf warblers are small insectivorous passerine birds belonging to the genus Phylloscopus. Leaf warblers were formerly included in the Old World warbler...
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Rumex (redirect from Doken Leaf)
near the inflorescence. They may or may not have stipules. Minor leaf veins occur. The leaf blade margins are entire or crenate. The usually inconspicuous...
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